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Rocky Linux 8 : libvpx (RLSA-2024:5941)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 207310

Synopsis

The remote Rocky Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2024:5941 advisory.

 * libvpx: Heap buffer overflow related to VP9 encoding (CVE-2023-6349)

 * libvpx: Integer overflow in vpx_img_alloc() (CVE-2024-5197)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Rocky Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:5941

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2283553

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2291198

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 207310

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2024-5941.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 9/16/2024

Updated: 9/16/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-6349

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-5197

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Threat Score: 2.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-5197

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libvpx, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libvpx-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libvpx-debuginfo, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libvpx-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-6349, CVE-2024-5197

IAVA: 2024-A-0464